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By The Werewolf · Posted
1. Define "better". 2. It's still more expensive than equivalent PCs so... -
By LoneWolfSL · Posted
Major Xbox layoffs may claim South of Midnight developer Compulsion entirely by Pulasthi Ariyasinghe Microsoft has been making major changes in its gaming wing Xbox for a few months now, including the appointment of a new CEO, a large number of leadership changes, and strategy shifts. However, the company is seemingly also looking at initiating a major layoffs wave at Xbox and perhaps even a studio closure. The new report lands from Kotaku, Xbox first-party developer Compulsion Games is being shuttered soon by Microsoft. For those unfamiliar with the studio, it's the team behind Contrast (2013), We Happy Few (2018), and South of Midnight (2025). Its latest game was quite well received, even winning a Peabody Award for its writing. It even received a 9/10 in Neowin's own review, highlighting its engaging storyline, gorgeous world, and curious characters. The studio joined Xbox Game Studios in 2018, just as Microsoft announced it is acquiring Playground Games, Undead Labs, and Ninja Theory. Despite recent listings for new staff roles, according to the new report, Compulsion Games is being closed entirely, with over 90 staff being let go. Kotaku also added that the studio's leadership is in negotiations with Microsoft about this decision, but no official details have been revealed yet. The report lands just as two senior managers of Xbox leave their posts at Microsoft Gaming. Head of Xbox Game Studios Craig Duncan and chief of staff Louise O'Connor originally began their journey in Rare and have been a part of Xbox for over two decades. Dunkan has been responsible for games like Kinect Sports and Sea of Thieves, while O'Connor was primarily working on Rare's Everwild project before its cancelation. If this report about the studio shutdown is accurate, this may just be the start of a major new layoffs wave at Xbox Game Studios. There are also rumors of Arkane Studios being heavily affected. As always, take all these reports with a grain of salt until something official materializes from Microsoft or the studios. -
By The Werewolf · Posted
The flaw with this analysis is that this laptop has a cellphone CPU in it. In the Intel world, that would be an N150 and those are everywhere, even in low end laptops. You can get an N150 based NUC with 16GB RAM and 256GB-512GB SSD... NOT soldered in... for < $500 Canadian (around US$360). The problem is two fold: tech bloggers/writers on most tech site (like this one, ironically) overvalue Apple and apparently aren't in the same earnings class as most regular people. As a result, we get breathless articles about how everyone needs a folding phone when most people just cannot afford one... or really need one. And we get Apple used as the baseline metric regardless of whether that comparison makes any sense. If Dell or HP released a retail laptop with a cellphone motherboard, you'd be all over them for doing that - but Apple does it and it's genius. I see articles suggesting what Samsung - a company that basically started the foldable phone market and has built them for eight years - needs to do to compete with Apple's unreleased, unspecced and unseen folding phone. Sorry, no - if the Neo (really creative name there BTW - still, better than the Go, the other "creative" product name everyone's using) encourages PC makers to make cellphone laptops using lower end ARM processors, we all lose. It's a step backwards and a capitulation to the fact that semiconductor makers and computer OEMs (and tech bloggers) have totally lost the plot. -
By +pmrd · Posted
Everyone should install this extension and ignore games that use AI. https://chromewebstore.google....nnigaaeelfkeomjcngmnh?pli=1 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ai-warning-for-steam/
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Okay, I just installed xp64 on another partition, just to play around with for right now. I started a thread about it here, which goes from my initial questions/concerns to my current state of xp64.
So far, so very good.
However, I disconnect my ethernet cables everytime I boot into xp64, because I am as you could imagine very scared to be connected at all since I currently have no Anti Virus software installed.
Sadly my personal favorite and what I have running currently on XP2, Nod32, is not yet supported/working properly for xp64.
I googled the topic before I started this thread, and I read alot of ups and downs and conflicting stories about what to use, so I am asking anyone who is currently running xp64, what they are using?
So my question is, what is a good, well known/trusted, working Anti Virus App for xp64?
Since for all practical purposes I am just playing around with xp64 right now, I dont mind using trial software as long as it is easy to uninstall (i.e. not like Nortons), so I am open to that. I already downloaded Kaspersky as this was one app I kept seeing being mentioned, but I am curious before I do install it to see if there are any other recomendations from any members.
Of course if there is a freeware alternative, that would be the best scenario, but I am not holding my breath on that one.
Also, since it is semi on the same topic, does anyone know if Spybot and AdAware run okay on xp64?
TIA to anyone that can help, and I hope this thread can also be used as a reference for members in the near future as well.
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